Patrick Mahomes excited for new plays Andy Reid cooked up this offseason

The Kansas City Chiefs shocked the NFL with their creativity in Week 1 of the regular season in 2018. They utilized misdirection on a shovel pass against the Chargers that led to a walk-in touchdown by De’Anthony Thomas. A week later and the entire NFL had adapted that play into their own playbooks.

This offseason Andy Reid has spent plenty of time in his laboratory cooking up some great new plays that fit the 2019 iteration of the Chiefs offense. Chiefs starting quarterback Patrick Mahomes is excited that everyone will finally get to get a peek at what they’ve been working on this offseason now that the regular season is about to get started.

“Definitely excited to be able to show all these plays we’ve been working on all through training camp and watch how they’re going to work in a game,” Mahomes said. “That’s stuff we worked on all offseason of how we think we can exploit defenses and how we think we can go out there and have success based on stuff we did last year. I’m excited that we’re about to go out there now and use the full game plan and do everything we need to do in order to hopefully come out with a win.”

Now, how much of these newly-designed plays came from Coach Reid? Plenty of it did, he’s always watching some old film, college film and even high school film trying to bring pieces of it all to the NFL to create the perfect play call. That doesn’t mean that Mahomes didn’t have his own input in the play design process too.

“I’m always spitting ideas at Coach and he usually weeds them out and finds the good ones,” Mahomes said. “I’m always out there trying to find new ways to put our guys in the best position and as I’m sure you know, Coach has a million notecards of plays. So, just using that on which ones I like and which ones we can sit back and work on a little bit more is something he always listens to my input about.”

It just goes to show you the trust that Reid already has in Mahomes to have him weigh-in and have so much input in this process. Hopefully, we’ll get a chance to see some of what they’ve been working on as soon as Week 1 when they face the Jacksonville Jaguars on the road.